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Which sentence from the article above features improper parallelism?

A. "Few American writers have had as much influence on the literary canon as Emily Dickinson."

B. "These pieces were collected and edited by Thomas Higginson, a former mentor of Dickinson's."

C. "Though she had a brief stay at Mount Holyoke Seminary and a stay in Boston for eye treatment, she almost never left her home."

D. "Dickinson's poems tended to be short, she punctuates them with dashes, and featured quirky innovations of word order."

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Parallelism is the arrangement of words in such a way that they share the same pattern. The sentence from the article that contains an example of improper parallelism is;

  • D. "Dickinson's poems tended to be short, she punctuates them with dashes, and featured quirky innovations of word order."

Parallelism is the arrangement of words in such a way that they follow the same pattern.

This last option from the passage is not a good example of parallelism because the pattern was disrupted after the first comma.

Proper use of parallelism ensures that the pattern continues in the sentence.

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